Tārīkh-i ikhtilāṭ-i Īrāniyān va Turkān

Spanning more than a thousand years, this study traces the long history of acquaintance, neighbourliness, and ultimate intermingling between Iranian-speaking and Turkic-speaking peoples across a vast expanse stretching from the borders of China and Central Asia to Anatolia and Iraq. Drawing on the scholarship of Peter B. Golden and Lars Johanson, it reconstructs how successive historical epochs deepened the ethnic, linguistic, and cultural fusion of these communities. Beginning with the steppes of present-day Mughūlistān, where the ancestors of both Iranian-speaking Scythians and the earliest Turkic tribes once dwelt, it follows the rise of Turkic states, the Sughdian intermediaries of the Silk Road, the Ghaznavids, Saljūqs, and the Turkmen confederations of the Āqqūyūnlū and Qarāqūyūnlū. The work devotes particular attention to the continuity of Iranian identity, the reciprocal influence of Persian and Turkic, and the genetic affinities binding these peoples together.